Radiant Logistics announced it has opened a new brokerage office in Overland Park, Kansas. The managers of the new operation were formerly with Yellow Logistics until its Aug. 1 closure.
Radiant Road and Rail, the brokerage arm of Radiant (NYSE: RLGT), focuses on truckload, less-than-truckload, intermodal, drayage and transloading services. The unit was founded 85 years ago and operated as Clipper Exxpress until last year.
Steve McCleary will head the customer and carrier teams while Ryan Stroup will lead field sales. Both helped expand Yellow’s truck brokerage unit, which was launched in 2017.
“With the abrupt closure of Yellow, we were able to move quickly to stand up an operation in Overland Park, while attracting quite a few very passionate and talented people looking to minimize service disruption for their customers,” Stroup said. “Radiant offered a robust, technology-enabled operating platform and a solid financial footing from which we can continue to service our customers.”
He said the new office was fully functional within two weeks from first contact.
“We are truly excited to welcome such a great team to our organization,” said Bohn Crain, Radiant founder and CEO. “Over the years we have looked at various acquisition candidates in the brokerage space to help build out our bi-modal brokerage capabilities at Radiant Road and Rail but just never found the right fit.”
Crain said both McCleary and Stroup were only able to sell TL brokerage services in the past given the structure at Yellow Corp. They will now also be marketing LTL and intermodal services.
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A J Foster
If this is drivers talking then you should believe it. They know what is true.
Nick west
All the union buster Republicans have been laughing at me and all other brothers and sisters. Voting for a republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Saunders. We’ve told you for years that right to work and at will laws are designed to break unions but you still keep voting the Bible. This is what you get
Bradley Crum
It is a dam shame that Yellow closed doors and it hurts me to see that 20 years ago it CF
Come on people let’s get right and bring back these Or company like them I work for Yellow and my dad did to and he work for CF also
Former employee
The headline sounded great, then I read the names of those involved. Ryan Stroup in charge of sales? He was obnoxious, knew next to nothing of the industry and made impossible promises to customers that he expected others to keep. He not only cost the company business but also screwed over clients. Good luck to anyone who takes a risk with them.
Jim
The whole scenario was planned from get go. Yellow and anyone affiliated with Yellow is a rip off !
David Signorello
Well that’s fantastic. Yellow Freight and Roadway were two great companies until greedy, selfish, upper echelon, corporate no it alls decided it would be a good idea to buy up companies and merge everything together. And why? Bust the Union?? Sure looks like it. Great job boys. Keep up the good work. You keep putting hard-working middle class Americans out of work.
There was ALWAYS enough Freight to go around. Hope you’re all proud of yourselves.
Take your bonuses and your golden parachutes to some island and leave us alone. Thanks. From a 28 year Teamster.
John
They are the reason for the company going out of business. Stranger danger coming for anyone uses them.
Keith Henry
With the new structure, is Radiant looking to lease on Owner Operators? I’m curious.